disrespecting
Treating with disdain
Disrespecting is showing a lack of respect or treating someone with contempt: Why are you disrespecting me like that?
The term gained currency through hip-hop culture and is now standard informal English.
Often shortened to dissing.
To disrespect someone can range from mild rudeness to outright insult.
Hostile dismissive feeling
- disdainScornful disregard
- loathingIntense, settled disgust
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- disgustIntense physical aversion
sneer · derision · abhorrence · antipathy · aversion · spurn · reject · look down on
Lacking good manners
- discourteousLacking good manners
- uncivilLacking basic politeness
- boorishCrudely ill-mannered
- crassCrudely lacking refinement
vulgar · tactless · insensitive · inconsiderate · brash · abrasive · uncouth · ill-mannered
To make smaller
- trivializeMake light of
- downplayDiminish perceived importance
- minimizeReduce to smallest extent
- devalueReduce perceived worth
underestimate · depreciate · demean · underrate · discount · dismiss · overlook · neglect
scorn
Hostile dismissive feeling
disgust · sneer · derision · abhorrence · antipathy · aversion · spurn · reject · look down on · despise
impolite
Lacking good manners
- discourteousLacking good manners
- uncivilLacking basic politeness
- boorishCrudely ill-mannered
crass · vulgar · tactless · insensitive · inconsiderate · brash · abrasive · uncouth · ill-mannered · insolent
diminish
To make smaller
- trivializeMake light of
- downplayDiminish perceived importance
- minimizeReduce to smallest extent
devalue · underestimate · depreciate · demean · underrate · discount · dismiss · overlook · neglect · condescend
taunt
Insulting provocation
slur · deride · scoff · affront · offend · abuse · denigrate · disparage · defame · slander
- offendinginsulting, offending, affronting, slighting, snubbing
- shamingshaming, humiliating, disgracing, dishonoring, degrading
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, racial harassment
- interactionstalking, sharing, greeting, helping, listening
disrespectingrespecting
About; on the topic
honoring · esteeming · revering · venerating · admiring
respect, respected, respectful, respects, disrespect, respecting, spectacle, disrespectful, respectable